卷三傳十四法音寺曇勇尼

曇勇者。曇簡尼之姊也。為性剛直不隨物以傾動。常以禪律為務。不以衣食經懷。 憩法音精舍。深悟無常高崇我樂。以建武元年隨簡同移白山。永元三年二月十五日夜積薪自燒以身供養。當時聞見咸發道心。共聚遺燼以立墳剎云

3.14 (Tsai no.50) T'an-yung

The nun T'an-yung (Courageous in the Dharma) (d. 501) of Voice of the Teaching Convent

T'an-yung was the elder sister of the nun T'an-chien (no. 46). By nature she was firm in her principles, unswayed by any outside circumstance. Always considering the practice of meditation and the strict observance of the monastic rules as her duty, she never thought of food and clothing as matters for her concern. She lived in Voice of the Teaching Convent, where she deeply comprehended the Buddhist teaching of impermanence and highly venerated the joy of cessation in nirvana.

In the first year of the chien-wu reign period (494), she moved to White Mountain together with T'an-chien, and, on the night of the fifteenth day of the second month of the third year of the yung-yüan reign period (501), she piled up firewood and burned up her body as an offering to the Buddha. Those who saw and heard her at that time all aspired to attain Buddhist enlightenment, and together they built a tomb to bury her remains that they had gathered up.